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SEGTIONAL KITOHXEN SAFE. No. 305,286. Patented Sept. 16, 1884.

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SEGTIONAL KITCHEN SAFE.

No. 305,286. Patented Sept. 16, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM CAMPBELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SECTIONAL KITCHEN-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,286, datedSeptember 16, 1884.

Application filed June 30, 1884. (No model.)

To fl/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LXVILLIAM G. CAMPBELL, of the city of St. Louis, in theState of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inSectional Kitchen-Safes, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification.

The sides, front, back, and top are connected by dovetails formed on thesides, which engage in dovetail sockets or grooves of the other parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a safe having the improvedconnections, parts broken out. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of thesides, back, and top detached. Fig. .3 is a perspective view of thefront, showing the inside thereof. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detailhorizontal section at the top of one of the shelf-brackets, showing thedovetail connection.

The improvement may be used on kitchensafes of various styles. It isshown as applied to a safe having two drawers at near its mid-height.

The front is shown at A. This may have the ordinary or any suitabledoors, a, and openings for drawersa".

B is the back of the'safe, having in the main any suitable construction.

0 are the sides, and D the top.

E are cleats or brackets fastened in a horizontal position to the innersides of the sides O, and projecting beyond the edges of the sides indovetail tenons c, which engage in dovetail sockets b b of the sidepieces of the front and back. These dovetail sockets are made with arecess, 7), at top large enough to receive the dovetail tenons 6 whenthe tenons enter the recesses horizontally. The lower part, Z), of thesocket is made to fit tightly the dovetail tenons e, the tenon beingdriven downward into it, all of the tenons 0 upon a side being enteredsimultaneously into the sockets of the back or front, or both. At thetops of the sides; 0 are dovetail ribs or tongues c, which fit indovetail. grooves d in the top D. hen the front, back, and sides havebeen secured together, the front ends of the tongues c are made to enterthe rear ends of the grooves d and the top D slipped backward intoposition.

It will be understood that the cleats E, as well as constituting themeans of attachment of the back and front with the sides 0, form theshelfsupports, and two of them form also drawer-supports, supporting thedrawers at the outer sides. The inner sides of the drawers rest upon astrip or bar, F, that has a tenon at one end fitting a recess in thefront, and a pinor tenon, f, at the rear end fitting a hole or mortise,I), in the back.

It will be seen that the safe can be set up or taken down by a personhaving no mechani cal knowledge.

I claim- 1. A sectional kitchen-safe having dovetail tenons projectingfrom the edges of the side pieces, and the front and back made withreccsses to receive the tenons, with dovetail inortises in connectionwith the recesses, in which the tenons tightly fit, substantially as setforth.

2. The combination of sides having shelfcleats attached within thedovetail tenons at their ends,the front and back with recesses toreceive the tenons, and dovetail mortises in connection with therecesses, in which the tenons tightly fit, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, in a kitchen-safe, of horizontal cleats havingdovetail tenons at their ends, the front and back with recesses, intowhich the tenons enter freely, and dovetail sockets in connection withsaid recesses, in which the tenons fit tightly, and the re movabledrawer rest, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, in a safe, of sides having cleats E, with tenons eat the ends, the front and back, with dovetail sockets, the removabledrawer-rest F, and the tongues and grooves c (l, for the purposes setforth.

XVILLIAM G. CAMPBELL.

\Vitnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT.

